The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
